Catalan Cuisine: Europe's Last Great Culinary Secret

More than just a collection of regional dishes or a minor culinary dialect, Catalan cuisine is a complex and sophisticated system of recipes and techniques that goes back to the cooking of the occupying Romans. It has been enriched over the centuries by invading Visigoths and Moors, by French and Italian merchants and immigrant resuaurateurs, and, most recently, by innovated Catalonian chefs.